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TIL a cafe in Bourges was once overwhelmed with customers after it was given a Michelin Star by accident

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W7x9 TIL during a plane ride with the entire WCW roster that was experiencing extreme turbulence, Randy Savage broke the tension by saying “Just think of the rating the memorial show’s gonna draw, boys – OOOH, YEAH!”.
jNOdn TIL: The Antichrist windows of Frankfurt were thought lost for much of the 20th century. The giant stained-glass made circa 1365 depicting Satan's doings and other scenes were packed away during WWII to avoid damage. Victorious Soviet forces took them away. Russia returned them in the early 2000s.
Wjbo TIL McDonald’s was originally “McDonald’s Bar-B-Que” until they realized that its main profit came from hamburgers, then they closed the place for 2 months and changed the food they served to just hamburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie, and also made the idea of fast food.
MeRg0 TIL that Pres. Hoover once ordered the US army to attack US veterans. In 1932, 17,000 unemployed WWI vets camped at the Washington Mall to demand payment owed to them. Hoover ordered the army to clear the camp, so the veterans were attacked with bayonets, tear gas, and tanks.
gMxJy TIL of milk sickness which is a poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.